Logan’s jammed web site for all the free stuff
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May 13, 2008An interview with Nicholson Baker author ofHuman Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization.Baker delivers a deeply moving indictment of the treasured myths that have romanticized much of the 1930s and ’40s. Incorporating meticulous research and well-documented sources — including newspaper and magazine articles, radio speeches, memoirs, and diaries — the [...]
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May 02, 2008 - Craig Barnes(51 minutes - 23.7mb)Craig Barnes is an author, essayist, playwright and international mediator.
His books include In Search Of The Lost Feminine, Decoding the Myths that Radically Reshaped Civilization, an analysis of the roles of women as they appear in archeology and myth before the patriarchy.
http://www.futureprimitive.org/GAIAlogues.html
See Ivan Illich’s Shadow [...]
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Also tagged Burnin' WoMen, cognitive liberty, Craig Barnes, Gaia, Ivan Illich, Joanna Harcourt-Smith, Open Source culture, open source religion, sexuality, Shadow Work, Tantrika's
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… the bat costs $1 more than the ball. How much does the ball cost? Daniel Kahneman KNOWS that the first thought that entered your head was $.10–even if you’re a Computer Science major at MIT. But that’s the wrong answer.
Daniel Gilbert’s “Stumbling On Happiness” led me to Nicholas Taleb’s “Fooled By Randomness“. Both [...]
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Also tagged awareness expansion, cognitive liberty, Daniel Gilbert, Danny Kahneman, heuristics, McLuhan, mind hacks, narrative fallacy, prospect theory, rationality, Taleb, video
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Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Lev Manovich is the author of Soft Cinema: Navigating the Database (The MIT Press, 2005), Black Box - White Cube (Merve Verlag Berlin, 2005), and The Language of New Media (The MIT Press, 2001) which is hailed as “the most suggestive and broad ranging media history since Marshall McLuhan.” UCLA listing and details.
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George is in the jungle
knockin’ on the door
come to get your children
wants to have a war
Long Dark Night Lyrics
A “Master Class” By Danny Kahneman
Danny Kahneman along with Amos Tversky won the 2002 Nobel Prize in economics for their discovery of behavioral economics. I learned about them through reading Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s “Fooled By Randomness” and then Daniel Gilbert’s “Stumbling on Happiness” I’ve become very interested in cognitive biases- as I [...]